Postcard from Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz written 29.08.1937

Author Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz

Category incoming correspondence, Polish researchers

Archive Ingarden Family archives

Date of creation 29.08.1937

Related places Lviv, Zakopane

Reference code in archive ARI

Resource type postcard

Subject matter academic issues, personal issues

Field logic, philosophy

Tags #Abhandlung, #academic dissertation, #academic work, #Aleksander Wundheiler, #brochure, #cigarettes, #health problems, #Joachim Metallmann, #logic, #Lviv, #pipe, #relax, #Roman Ingarden, #Rudolf Carnap, #smoking, #Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz, #summer, #vacation, #Witkacy, #work on Carnap, #Zakopane

29.VIII 1937
Honoured and Dear Professor:
Thank you very much for the letter and the brochure. I am not writing any more for now, because I assume you will choose to come here. Your temperatures are worrying, and Zakopane is probably necessary before winter work. People come here to get rid of their fevers. I am going to spend September (¾ at least) in Z[akopane], unless some catastrophe occurs. I am expecting you here, then. The weather will be fine, as it has been pouring for the whole of August. I am writing about logic (for the last time), the thing above my strength, but as a prelude to Carnap – necessary.
F.G. [family greetings]
(I advise you to stop smoking – [I recommend] a pipe without inhaling).
I enclose words of respect and affection, and thank you once again. F.G. [family greetings]

n Witkacy.

I had a number of interesting, but hopeless conversations with Wundheiler (an eddingtonist*) – but it’s over. Metallmann is here, but he’s almost finished (just Metallmann’s candle stump).

*[an enthusiast of A. Eddington]

Postcard
Dr. Roman Ingarden
Lviv
Zacharjewicz Street 7, apt. 8